Annual Salary
£23,000 to £42,000
Average UK salary in 2019 was £30,378
(source Office for National Statistics)
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Wind turbine technicians maintain and repair wind farm turbines on land and at sea.
Average UK salary in 2019 was £30,378
(source Office for National Statistics)
You could work: on call; occasionally
There will be
1% more Wind turbine technician jobs in 2026.
In your local area
In your day-to-day duties you could:
You may need to wear protective clothing.
You could work in remote rural areas or at sea.
Your working environment may be at height and outdoors in all weathers.
You can get into this job through:
You can do a foundation degree, higher national diploma or degree in:
Courses that include the opportunity to gain work experience through a year in industry or summer internships may give you an advantage.
You'll usually need:
You can do a college course, which can help you to get a trainee job with a wind turbine engineering company. Courses include:
You'll usually need:
You can do an engineering technician, or maintenance and operations engineering technician, advanced apprenticeship.
You'll usually need:
You can apply directly for jobs if you've got qualifications and experience in electrical or mechanical engineering from another industry, or from the armed forces.
You'll need to:
Demand for wind turbine technicians is predicted to grow over the next 10 years, with older wind farms being replaced or refurbished, as they come to the end of their working lives.
You can discover more about a career as a wind turbine technician from RenewableUK.
You could become an authorised technician, with responsibility for supervising a technical team, and dealing with health and safety.
With further training, you could work as an operations and maintenance manager, control systems engineer or energy engineer.
You'll need: